Search for dissertations about: "agrarian history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words agrarian history.

  2. 1. Distribution and Differences : Stratification and the System of Reproduction in a Swedish Peasant Community 1620-1820

    Author : Jonas Lindström; Maria Ågren; Jan Lindegren; Carl-Johan Gadd; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Peasant; stratification; inequality; reproduction; resources; distribution; social mobility; household; family; community; landholding; principles; conditions; social structure; feudalism; early modern period; Björskog; Sweden; agrarian history; social history; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the character, conditions and change of peasant stratification in early modern Sweden. Wherever and whenever one looks, one finds that resources were unevenly spread among peasant households. In the literature, there are different, and conflicting, views compatible with this finding. READ MORE

  4. 2. Cultivating the Rural Citizen : Modernity, Agrarianism and Citizenship in Late Tsarist Estonia

    Author : Johan Eellend; David Gaunt; Toivo U. Raun; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonia; Agrarian Ideology; Agrarian Modernization; Citizenship; Family; Gender; Public Sphere; Agricultural Journals; Agricultural Associations; Exhibitions; 19th Century; 20th Century; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the ideas and political practices produced in the emerging rural public sphere in late Tsarist Estonia. The time period is characterized by radical social and economic change and growing national and political self consciousness. READ MORE

  5. 3. Exporting agrarian expertise : development aid at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors, 1950–2009

    Author : Karl Bruno; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : Agrarian expertise has been employed in the context of Swedish development aid since the 1950s. Throughout this time, the Swedish institutions of higher agrarian education—the Agricultural College, the College of Forestry, and the Veterinary College, in 1977 merged to form the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences—have played important roles. READ MORE

  6. 4. Before the "European Miracles". Four Essays on Swedish Preconditions for Conquest, Growth, andVoice

    Author : Erik Örjan Emilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aristocracy; agrarian history; comparative history; Early Modern Sweden; economic dynamics; evolutionary social science theories; institutional theories; jurisdictional system; lawspeakers lagmän ; Medieval Sweden; parliamentary politics; peasant categories; peasant rebellions; political contestation; political representation; property taxations; Sweden’s Great Power Age; theories of feudalism; transition to capitalism;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four studies that further develop the perspectives introduced in the author’s licential dissertation, Sweden and the European Miracles: Conquest, Growth and Voice (1996). The dynamic properties of the European system of independent but interacting societies are traced back to the institutional polystruc-turality of European feudalism and the peculiarities of Sweden’s historical experience are asserted to be part of this intersocietal heritage. READ MORE

  7. 5. The rural poor : agrarian changes and survival strategies in Chile 1973-1989

    Author : Paulina de los Reyes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

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